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I'm not so sure the hard core physicalist sees any mind-body dualism at all in this case. He (typically he) just sees brains at work, genes, chemistry...

Definately, but that's not the point. A totalitarian one party cannot be sure of just how loyal and trusting the people are. It inherently cannot know...

How you depict the Anti-Trump crowd is quite similar how the Anti-Bernie / Anti-AOC etc. camp could be described..just coming from another perspective...

The Hong Kong protests show quite clearly how Communist China will fail. First and foremost, the Chinese leadership and the Chinese Communist Party is...

Seriously speaking, Trump is one of the worst possible deal makers ever, but the perfect example how it doesn't matter at all as some Americans put on...

So, what do the Brits here think about Boris extending the Parliamentary leave? Bit of a Trump move, I'd say.

Your honest modesty here has a grain of wisdom in it. Wittgenstein's whole book is written in a style that seeks to be simple and short as possible, b...

I think I have to disagree with that. Meaning the part where you say "the majority of those with power earned it by some method of exploitation". Ther...

Recursion isn't the thing here and creates confusion, because we indeed use models with 'self reference' all the time. Still, with recursion we have a...

To model the economy as a machine is actually very bad and in the end harmful. First of all, machine works the same way from when you put in on and sh...

I think this statement makes total sense. You will get circularity otherwise.

Well, Denmark replied officially by it's representatives quite badly. You see, they acted as if this President wouldn't be tweeting brainfarts or simp...

Actually yes. But the advice I gave on the previous page would really be contemplated in this White House for sure. If it only was first read in Fox N...

G R E E N L A N D ! ! ! I would suggest to President Trump and fellow Americans the following: First, have totally unknown armed people (calling thems...

Just like with other giants of philosophy, we tend to forget their main points and likely judge them by today's standards. Perhaps it's fitting here t...

That may be so trendy and smart especially in a Philosophy forum, but is really the closest to the reality what the future will give us? And btw. it's...

Why do you think that this will be so? What is the argument? Similar to what was said in the 1970's that our civilization will collapse in the turn of...

Believing in something is actually an choice. You don't have to believe that this planet exists, it's simply a fact. If you disagree with the existenc...

Astonishing and controversial claims is what our idiotic net driven public discourse craves for and will be the ones that are picked up (if written by...

If he did, nobody wouldn't have to have any faith as the issue simply wouldn't be about faith and religion anymore. And anyway, what the hell would he...

Being rich and especially being educated makes people privileged compared to others in our present society. Of course, it ought not to be any surprise...

As Deng Xiaoping said: "No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat." I guess when a Communist accep...

It hasn't come as a surprise. As the Communist leadership grew more confident of it's own position, it is absolutely no wonder that it would show it's...

I think Maw has said going full conspiracy theory. It's still a hideously ugly scandal if Epstein committed suicide. Trump knows what to do: in a huge...

Race like gender or even nationality is a strong dividing factor how we categorize intentionally or unintentionally people. And since we do have and u...

Are you sure this was invented by Europeans? By this I mean the dehumanization of other people. I would consider racism an universal phenomenon and ea...

Ah yes, why don't I also start giving as the example of white people that colonized America, the Nazis. Very fitting to the times to link "white" with...

Humans adapt easily to any kind of situation. Feelings are typically the most strongest when you don't have any kind of experience of them before and ...

What is 100% Northern European? A blue eyed blonde haired Sami person, who talks about being other than a white? There's a real Northern. The whole bu...

This is what I feel also, but I've given up on the whole debate around it being logical. And likely know that someone will attack my view.

So if you decide to give out reparations or redistribution in some form to people based on race, how do you then (or now) define who's black / native ...

At least Trump did the Trumpian move here: A hideously ugly scandal that he is intrinsically involved with, he brings it up and starts attacking Bill ...

Ok, well, this is a little different it seems. Because people can be happy with their work yet be really clueless of the purpose of life. Yet if we lo...

Medieval Iceland? Likely Iceland was then somewhat anarchistic (likely not as much as present Hollywood with it's silly biker-gang Vikings depict the ...

I do think I got your point. Perhaps you didn't get my answer. I'll try to make it from another angle. Actually, people weren't indispensable to a tri...

One's relationship to his or her country, even to the armed forces itself, is quite ideological. Many civilians are quite as patriotic and conservativ...

Likely there will be this mental rift between those families who have people that serve or have served in the military and others who have nobody that...

The purpose for life is an eternal question. It isn't linked to how advanced or simple the society is where one lives or, in the end, to the role one ...

I think that there is a simple reason to this. To be the sole Superpower with a hugely effective armed forces in the World along with the USD being th...

Wallows, I don't think that the Muslim community was radicalized because of the CIA. It radicalized because a lot of Muslim countries actually helped ...

Oh God. :roll: Now where did you get the thought that I was referring to 'black' or 'working' people here? (Oh right, the TITLE!!!!) Yes, I'm bit slee...

Yeah, I'm just waiting when smart and intelligent people will start acknowledging their debt to the stupid and apologize. I mean, without stupid peopl...

I don't refer here to an utopia being equivalent to paradise, when I talk about utopia here. Perhaps better would be to talk about a fictional or a th...

Have to find it and watch it. But I've experienced the effects of Perestroika and Glasnost as a child when our family had Russian (Soviet) visitors in...

When you don't have absolutely any example of the ideal state of the society (the non-state libertarian paradise) which you model and every state ever...

Spot on. But in a country where people believe that the US didn't send astronauts to the Moon, anything is possible and the discourse can easily be hi...

Coercive aggressor, which has an inevitable growth and 'limited government' is utopian? And then you say :smile: Well, this seems not to be an economi...

It a simply issue of how many people were killed in the attack: the 1993 Twin Tower Bombings, some of whose perpetrators were relatives of the 9/11 at...

By that definition Syria isn't a state. Why not? Especially when looking at history this divide becomes very problematic. How do you define a tribal c...

I'm very sorry if this comment offends someone, but the more I think of it, the less this whole discourse of the "American people having guns" to some...